I’m very much in favor of everyone discussing Chaika and his gangsters, but I’ll be very upset if that makes you miss New Times. They examined the materials from the Spanish case against the “Russian mafia.”
This is some kind of absolute hell, friends. Our law enforcement system is literally controlled by criminal organized groups.
The Spanish authorities wiretapped phone conversations of St. Petersburg gangsters (the real kind) and found that they had, for example, appointed Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia.
And here, following up on New Times, Open Russia has posted the Russian text of the indictment. It’s absolutely mind-blowing.
What kind of state have we built?